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BOTANICAL MUSEUM LEAFLETS 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY | 
CamBRIDGE, Massacuusetts, Frespruary 7, 1936 VoL. 4, No. 
TWO NEW SPECIES OF EPIDENDRUM 
FROM MIDDLE AMERICA 
BY 
Oakes Ames, F. Tracy Hupparp 
AND CHARLES SCHWEINFURTH 
In recent collections from Guatemala and Panama 
there are two species of the genus Epidendrum which 
are apparently undescribed. 
Epidendrum Skutchii 4 mes, Hubbard & Schwein- 
furth sp. nov. 
Herba fruticosa, gracilis. Radices crassae, elongatae. 
Folia prope ramorum apicem congesta, pauca, linearia 
vel lineari-lanceolata. Inflorescentiae laxae, pauciflorae, 
quam folia multo breviores; rhachis fractiflexa. Sepala 
lateralia lanceolato-elliptica vel lanceolato-ovalia, plus 
minusve obliqua. Sepalum dorsale oblanceolatum vel ob- 
lanceolato-ellipticum, obtusum. Petala oblanceolata vel 
oblongo-oblanceolata, acuta vel retusa. Labellum colum- 
nae valde adnatum, in circuitu late triangulari-ovatum, 
prope medium utrinque angustatum, retusum, basi corda- 
tum, marginibus crenulatis; discus callo elliptico magno 
centrali basi bisulcato ornatus. Columna superne dila- 
tata. Ovarium superne plus minusve vesiculatum. 
Plant tall, much branched, ‘‘bushy,’’ up to 120 em. 
tall (fide collector). Roots fibrous, stout, elongate, spar- 
ingly branched, minutely cellular-papillose. Stems slen- 
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